Application Deadline:
09/13/2026
Address:
33 Dundas Street West
Job Family Group:
Technology
The Senior Software Development Lead provides hands-on technical leadership for the design, development, modernization and production stability of enterprise wire payment services. The role will mainly focus on the cloud-native applications while supporting integration with on-prem applications and upstream/downstream systems.
The successful candidate will combine strong AWS serverless engineering capability with application design, coding, troubleshooting and delivery leadership. This person will guide internal and vendor developers, review designs and code, drive resilient implementation patterns, and remain actively involved from requirements and estimation through production implementation and post-release verification.
Key Responsibilities
Provide hands-on technical leadership for the design, development and modernization of wire payment services. Translate business and regulatory requirements into scalable, secure and resilient cloud-native solutions. Design, develop and review AWS serverless applications using Node.js, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, S3, APIs and AWS CDK. Lead solution design, code reviews, technical documentation, effort estimation and implementation planning. Establish engineering standards for resiliency, error handling, retry, recovery, observability, security and performance. Partner with QA on unit, integration, white-box, regression, performance, chaos and production-readiness testing. Diagnose complex production issues, lead root-cause analysis and ensure permanent corrective actions are implemented. Drive technology-currency, vulnerability and runtime remediation across application components and environments. Provide technical guidance to internal and vendor developers, ensuring quality, accountability and knowledge transfer. Promote automation and approved AI-assisted engineering practices to improve delivery speed, testing effectiveness and code quality.
Required technical skills:
AWS and cloud-native engineering
AWS Lambda
DynamoDB
SQS and DLQ
SNS
EventBridge
S3
API Gateway or enterprise API management
CloudWatch or comparable logging and monitoring
IAM and role-based security
AWS CDK and Infrastructure as Code
ECS/ECR knowledge for dashboard components
Resiliency, high-availability and failure-recovery patterns
Application development:
Node.js and Java is a bonus
REST APIs and backend service development
Microservices and event-driven design
Message-driven processing using Kafka, MQ or equivalent
CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment
Code review, troubleshooting and performance analysis
Production incident diagnosis and root-cause analysis
NFR, performance, chaos and fallback testing
Observability, logging, tracing, alerting and telemetry
Estimation, planning and dependency management
Technical documentation and architecture review
Preferred qualifications:
AWS Certified Developer Associate or AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate.
Experience with wire payments, financial messaging or other high-value payment systems is a bonus
Knowledge of ISO 20022, SWIFT, Fedwire, Lynx or payment-message processing is a bonus
Experience applying AI-assisted development, test design, log analysis or code-quality tooling.
Salary:
$94,600.00 - $176,000.00
Pay Type:
Salaried
The above represents BMO Financial Group's pay range and type.
Salaries will vary based on factors such as location, skills, experience, education, and qualifications for the role, and may include a commission structure. Salaries for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on number of hours regularly worked. For commission roles, the salary listed above represents BMO Financial Group's expected target for the first year in this position.
BMO Financial Group's total compensation package will vary based on the pay type of the position and may include performance-based incentives, discretionary bonuses, as well as other perks and rewards. BMO also offers health insurance, tuition reimbursement, accident and life insurance, and retirement savings plans. To view more details of our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.bmo.com/global/en/Total-Rewards
